Seven win Art in OV honors

Seven win Art in OV honors

Photo courtesy of the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance, Third place in the 2010 Art in Oro Valley competition went to Magdalena Nowacka-Jannotta for "Lacey Gwiazda (Star)," a papercut.

Seven win Art in OV honors

Photo courtesy of the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance, Victoria von Elbe finished second in the 2010 Art in Oro Valley competition with "My Village," a four-color woodcut.

Seven win Art in OV honors

Photo courtesy of the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance, Meg Newberg has the first-place winner in the 2010 Art in Oro Valley competition. Her oil on panel painting is titled "Sunday Afternoon."

Seven artists have won honors in the 2010 Art in Oro Valley
Competition and Exhibition, arranged by the Southern Arizona Arts
and Cultural Alliance.

The ninth annual exhibition takes place at the Oro Valley
corporate campus of Ventana Medical Systems, a sponsor of the
annual event.

Every year since the contest's inception, artists from the
Greater Oro Valley region enter original works for consideration
based on an overall theme. This year's theme was "cultural
diversity," with artists asked to demonstrate how their works,
which were created expressly for the Art in Oro Valley
contest/exhibition, related to the central theme.

Winners are:

First place: Meg Newberg, for her oil painting "Sunday
Afternoon," which depicted a gathering of Zapotec women cooking a
Sunday meal. The Zapotecs were an indigenous people of Mexico.

Third place: Magdalena Nowacka-Jannotta, for her paper-cutting
"Lacey Gwiazda (Star)," a work combining the intricate style of
traditional Polish paper-cutting with colors and textures of the
Southwest.

Honorable mentions went to:

Allison Alexandra, for a pastel portrait of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords.

Alice Barnhart, for a pastel portrait of a Korean
broom-maker.

Pam Davidson, for her acrylic featuring the iconic imagery of
Dia de los Muertos, an annual celebration of remembrance in Latin
America.

Shirley Richards, for a collage that evokes classic Southwest
imagery.

Works by contest winners and recipients of honorable mentions,
as well as works submitted by nearly 30 other artists, remain on
display through June 30 at the gallery at Ventana Medical Systems,
1910 E. Innovation Park Drive.

The gallery is open to the public, free of charge, from 9 a.m.
to noon on Wednesdays and from 1 to 4 p.m. Fridays.

In a second gallery space at the Ventana campus, SAACA also will
display works by featured artists Sherrie Posternak, Gale
Prososki-Marsland and Wall Batterton. Works by these three visual
artists will remain on display through June 25. For more
information about their works, go online to http://saaca.org/events-ventanagallery.html.